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The WA (weekend away) took in a match against Union Fanforum, a team of 1.FC Union Berlin fans, the users of forum
1. 26 Apr 2007. Sticks and his favourite paper
2. Sash with a lovely horse, Stansted Airport
3. ChChFCOBTC enjoying the first beer on the banks of the Spree
4. Our nearest station
5. Marching unopposed through Kreuzberg
6. Ashti's look says it all, really
7. In Golgotha biergarten,Viktoriapark, Kreuzberg
8. Sio, Dan, Phil, Lilly
9. Phil's Guide to people you can meet sitting in one of those stripey chairs - an Englishman
10. - a Russian
11. - a German
12. Sasha prefers to pass out in those chairs, rather than meet anyone (apart from Phil)
13. Whereas Lilly prefers to break furniture
14. 27 Apr 2007. And now for a friendly game of pool...
15... that then gets too friendly...
16... and descends into violence
17. Beautiful Friday morning at the Baxpax Hostel in Ziegelstrasse
18. A nice Imperial eagle on Weidendammerbruecke
19. Dan Don loves Berlin
20. Tacheles building. We'll dominate it before long
21. Neue Synagoge, Oranienburgerstrasse
22. The gap left by a bombed-out house
23. A deportation collection point for Jews
24. Dan brueckeing it with a local bear
25. ChChFCOBTC pondering history at a memorial to those who did not turn away but stopped a deportation
26. Berliner Dom
27. Tourists
28. Sash liking it on the Museuminsel (with Altes Museum in the background)
29. Preston the Tourguide and his captivated audience (Palast der Republik being dismantled there)
30. Unter den Linden
31. Bebelplatz (the site of the first book burning) and St.Hedwig's Kathedrale
32. Friedrich der Grosse
33. And in the meantime... Dubbs is brueckeing another local bear...
34... whilst Rob and Ashti are sampling open-top buses
35. On the way to the Reichstag along the Spree
36. Reichstag - a detail
37. ChChFCOBTC at the Reichstag
38. Reichstag close up...
39.... and picture-perfect across the meadow
40. The Soviet War memorial in the Tiergarten
41. T-34
42. ChChFCOBTC at the memorial
43. Eternal glory to the heroes-tankmen who fell during the storming of the city of Berlin
44. A breather in the Tiergarten
45. The Holocaust Memorial
46. The site of the Reichskanzlei
47. The site of Hitler's bunker
48. The former Luftfahrtsministerium (and SED HQ) in Wilhelmstrasse
49. ChChFCOBTC marching on
50. Several eras thrown together
51. ChChFCOBTC at the Berlin Wall on the site of the former Gestapo HQ
52. Brandenburger Tor from Pariserplatz
53. Strasse des 17.Juni with Siegessaeule
54. Having a seat at the Tor
55. Some absurd leaning in a Biergarten in Prenzlauer Berg
56. Half-man, half-...
57. Rob, Ashti, Charlie
58. Chew, lads
59. 28 Apr 2007. Sticks airborne...
60. Gav sitting down
61. Don't let those lights blind you...
62. A round of applause
63. Tony in his usual pose
64. Gaylords
65. Self-descriptive
66. Where are the kids?
67. The morning of the important international fixture arrives
68. The crowds know the time...
69... and the place of this massive event
70. ChChFCOBTC stumbling towards Friedrichstrasse S-Bahn station at some stupidly early hour
71. Buying a ticket at Friedrichstrasse to go to Schoeneweide on the S9 - a matter of some concern, given our current state
72. On the (slightly pink) S-Bahn
73. Nutrition before the match - very important!
74. A reminder of Germany's World Cup triumphs
75. Preparing for action - The Fly
76. Tony - actually awake!
77. Hicksy and Dubbs - focused!
78. ChChFCOBTC - chomping at the bit
79. The captains - Erwin and Sash
80. ChChFCOBTC lining up at Arena Wuhlheide, Oberschoeneweide
81. Phil Day flying down the wing
82. Tony pulling the trigger
83. Sash shouting s***
84. Dubbs looking fat
85. Gav taking on the whole opposing side
86. Sash and Gav - on the ball at the back
87. Phil knows the importance of rehydration
88. Stopping the hosts' attack towards the end
89. Reevo - refereeing without moving
90. Phil - still full of running
91. Union Fanforum 0 ChChFCOBTC 7 - after the match
92. And another one
93. The victorious captain with a delightful bottle of beer
94. Off to the Regionalliga Nord match
95. Beer at a tram stop - stuff dreams are made of
96. At the 1.FC Union Berlin clubhouse
97. Phil Small does not approve of the fun
98. Training pitch behind Stadion An der Alten Försterei
99. Spot the rugby players
100. View from Haupttribuene towards Fanstribuene and Gegentribuene
101. The Away End
102. Tony does panoramic
103. The scarves are out on the Gegentribuene
104. Hauptmann von Koepenick joins us
105. Hicksy and Sash - (in) red
106. Dan, Sash, Phil, enjoying the sun
107. The others a bit burnt by the sun
108. 2-0 to Union
109. The colours are out
110. Getting hosed down at half-time
111. ChChFCOBTC at the match - 2nd half
112. The next generation
113. A rare 2nd-half Union attack
114. And so it finishes 1.FC Union Berlin ZWEI, FC Dynamo Dresden EINS
115. The exhausted Union players acknowledging the fans after the final whistle
116. Sash and Sticks acknowledgign Hicksy there
117. Average number of police vans
118. A few quiet beers with our hosts in the sunshine
119. And a few more...
120. The Union supporters' bar in Wilhelminenhofstrasse, Oberschoeneweide
121. The beers are going down well
122. Oberschoeneweide
123. Sticks keeling over
124. Fluppi abuse
125. Even the disabled are joining in
126. Looking more sinister from this angle
127. Gav love
128. The biggest smile in the house
129. Yes, Dan, in beer veritas
130. Sterni and Jan
131. Gav thinks it's a rave
132. Singing... what are you singing...
133. Seriously...
134. Sticks doing something inapproriate again
135. Ian - a jolly good fellow
136... As everyone knows by now
137. Not even looking that pished...
138. Erwin
139. Jan and his mates
140. Nice hats, chaps
141. That bar will change shortly...
142. Ambassador Reeve
143. What are you strange English lot gonna do with that sherbert
144. Put in up our noses, obviously!!! Through rather long straws...
145... And then dance on bars with dolphins
146... and without
147. Long-lasting effects of Lilly's encounter with the sun
148. An athletic-looking lady
149. F***ed - Stef
150. F***ed - Pikey
151. F***ed - Tony
152. F***ed - even the locals
153. 29 Apr 2007. Party on in Kulturbraurei, Prenzlauer Berg
154. Roger's honesty backfires spectacularly
155. Grooving, for shure
156. Absolutely nothing wrong with that photo
157. F***ed - ChChFCOBTC
158. Back to the cultural part - Brecht's land
159. Brecht himself
160. Amazingly there was a US Army checkpoint named after our friend Charlie
161. Kaiser- Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche, off Kurfuerstendamm
162. Sash (and Jemima the Pink Mouse balloon) outside the Berlin Zoo
163. Important flag consecration ceremony
164. An idiot
165. Dubbs loves Germany
166. Jemima and friends
167. Do you know this man?
168. And it the meantime, outside the Reichstag, Sticks is mesmerising the crowds
169. Before becoming Gav's next victim
170. ChChFCOBTC preparing to do their bit
171. Well, the German Parliament has never witnessed anything like this
172. Heroic... tramps
173. Surrounded by pink in the curry house
174. Whilst Dan meets a family member
175. And the travel team sign the flag
176. After whuch Dubbs pulls a lascar face
177. Alphabet for total mongs
178. In Tacheles Sash really got the impression he was being followed
179. Signs everywhere
180. PC World (circa 1987)
181. ChChFCOBTC in PC World (circa 1987)
182. The mouse moves on
183. A corridor in Tacheles
184. A random staircase in Tacheles. Those lads either side are definitely not ours
185. And another reminder of the score...
186.... Dan's favourite pastime...
187... and who our groundsman is.
188. 30 Apr 2007. ChChFCOBTC flagging perhaps
189. Seriously not
190. Really awake
191. Causing chaos
192. Meeting short people
193. and Lithuanian females...
194... whilst being wedgied by your dad
195. And being peeped upon
196. But still wanting more
197. A tragedy strikes
198. Despair and death
199. ChChFCOBTC Homs
200. A pariah with a shirt
201. How shirts should be worn
202. More from the homs
203. You might think it's s*** but it's...
204... PIKAO!
205. Hey, kids, listen to Uncle Nick, a'right!
206. Beautiful!
207. The 6.30 am survivors' photo in Reevo's flat that Pikey seems to have made via a mental institution
208. Reichstag. 8.50 am. These people are NAILS. (Phil did cheat, though)
209. Reichstag. 8.55 am. Pile-on
210. Reichstag. 9 am. A Federal offence being committed
211. Outside the Reichstag. 9.15 am. These people are murked
212. Foster's dome on the Reichstag
213. Looking West
214. Looking East
215. And towards Potsdamer Platz
216. Sash and Reevo on their last legs
217. Pikey and Reevo on the floor
218. Alexanderplatz
219. War damage on the buildings opposite the Pergamon Museum
220. Another triumphant voyage to the Continent
221. Sums up the mental age of the participants by the end of the trip
3. The mighty hosts
10. The captains - Maks and Sash
12. Being sh*tfaced inspires them
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